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9 Nov 2023, 07:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Tesla Files have already revealed several issues with the battery electric vehicle (BEV) maker. Learning how things got to this point is proving to be even more instructive than the effects themselves. Lukasz Krupski went public and told Handel...
8 Nov 2023, 18:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On October 18, Richard Magno de Paula photographed and filmed seven units of the Fiat Strada in a car hauler on A12, close to the Vasco da Gama bridge in Portugal. The Brazilian magazine Quatro Rodas checked with its sources and learned that the su...
7 Nov 2023, 10:07 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Tesla Files have revealed how poorly the battery electric vehicle maker protects its employees' and customers' personal data. It also showed how strategic files, such as those related to the Cybertruck development, were readily availa...
6 Nov 2023, 20:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The slow(ing) sales of battery electric vehicles (BEV) made the blogs that defend them react. Some of them argue that this is not on the product but rather on the companies that fail to deliver what people want at the prices they want to pay. The o...
3 Nov 2023, 11:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If nothing postpones its official deliveries, we should see the first owners of the Tesla Cybertruck present themselves on November 30. Despite that, the electric pickup truck is showing off so often that we already know many of its flaws. For a ve...
2 Nov 2023, 21:15 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Not that long ago, anyone willing to buy a car could go to automakers' websites and have a look at the technical specifications of anything that they considered enticing. Apart from a few honorable exceptions, that is no longer possible. The o...
31 Oct 2023, 10:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After QuantumScape revealed its cells beat its commercial targets, StoreDot wanted to share some good news as well. According to the Israeli battery startup, its extreme fast charging (XFC) cells have endured 1,000 cycles of fast charging without p...
30 Oct 2023, 20:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I started writing about $25,000 (or €25,000) battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and noticed I had more to say than that first attempt would allow. At that point, it was essential to explain why electric cars eventually sold for that amount would...
30 Oct 2023, 20:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When I wrote about Mazda’s attempt to create the perfect range extender, I mentioned I wanted to examine the ideas that seem to be closer to that goal. Unfortunately, the Japanese company’s attempt with the MX-30 R-EV failed, giving us ...
29 Oct 2023, 14:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Nissan said at the Japan Mobility Show that it wanted to develop more affordable electric cars. The Volkswagen Group is working on that with the MEB Lite and all the ID. 2all siblings that it will spawn. Their goal is to cost around €25,000 an...
28 Oct 2023, 17:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Fiat Strada is also known as the RAM 700. It is selling in buckets in Brazil and will soon reach Mexico as well. The idea of a tiny cargo carrier that can transport more stuff than a GMC Hummer EV probably rang a bell at Stellantis, which decid...
27 Oct 2023, 19:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / People repeat endlessly that Tesla vehicles are cheaper to live with. They also praised the price cuts as proof that the company was a battery electric vehicle (BEV) champion that would offer them to the masses. Hertz killed these two myths with a ...
26 Oct 2023, 19:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Leapmotor. Talk about anywhere but China and people will look at you with a massive question mark on their faces. Mention it in China, and most people will tell you about the C11 and how the company is selling reasonably well there. That starts to ...
26 Oct 2023, 10:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Those who follow QuantumScape are certainly familiar with the company's commercial target. The solid-state platform startup wants to ensure its cells can reach 800 cycles while retaining at least 80% capacity. After it shipped its A0 24-layer ...
25 Oct 2023, 18:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla's discounts have been bugging me since they started. I love the idea of having cheaper cars, but I can only respect things that make sense. The battery electric vehicle (BEV) maker's strategy doesn't. When the Q3 2023 numbers g...
24 Oct 2023, 11:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In this Tesla Profits series, I have already shown how much money the battery electric vehicle (BEV) maker lost with its discounts. In an unrealistically beneficial calculation, it was $7.77 billion. The first hypothesis the company's advocate...
23 Oct 2023, 08:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / One of the explanations Tesla advocates find to justify why the company is cutting prices is that the company was allegedly so efficient in slashing costs that it now can share that with customers. The goal would be to "save the world" by...
23 Oct 2023, 08:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk is famous for being controversial about all kinds of matters. Honestly, that should matter only to those who take him seriously or give him more relevance than he truly has. That changes substantially when it affects Tesla customers'...
21 Oct 2023, 20:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On July 20, I made an exercise to understand the profits Tesla's earning reports suggested the company had. At that point, they made no sense at all. With the release of the Q3 2023 results, I decided to repeat these calculations in a more ela...
19 Oct 2023, 09:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The BMS_u029 error code Facebook group recently reached 1,000 members. Luckily, it seems to be growing more due to the interest that the subject raised than due to new cases. Despite that, the stories of those affected never cease to disappoint reg...